Help Find Sparko, the Lost Robot Dog

We covered the story
of Jack Weeks and his quest to
restore Elektro the
Moto Man last year. Elektro was a 300 pound robot created by
Westinghouse for the 1939 World's Fair. The restored Elektro now rests
in the Mansfield Memorial Museum
in Ohio but one thing is still missing. Elektro had robot dog named
Sparko who is still missing. An Ohio
Free Times article updates the story. Elektro may be moving to the
Henry Ford Museum or even the Smithsonian. The biggest challenge
remaining to Weeks is finding one of the three robot dogs, all named
Sparko, that were built as pets for Elektro. The last confirmed sighting of
Sparko was in California in 1957. The dogs were light-followers and
legend has it that one of the three dogs was hit by a car and destroyed
when it
wandered out of an open door at the Westingouse lab. There are several
unconfirmed sightings of the third Sparko at a garage sale in the same
Mansfield, Ohio area
where Elektro was found. If you've seen Sparko or have any information
about the robot dog's current location, please contact Jack Weeks.